01 July 2022
Tanks are pictured at an Israeli military post near the Israeli-Syrian border on March 9, 2022, (Jalaa Marey/AFP via Getty Images)
Recently, this writer attended a dinner at which the keynote speaker was Yossi Cohen, the former director of Mossad, Israel’s external intelligence service.
The focus of Cohen’s address was the impact of global events on Israel’s strategic security.
What leftist, on the verge of losing his power in Washington, and yet possessed of the means of retaining it through violence, would have walked away as Trump did?
By Dan Gelernter, AM GREATNESS
A Trump aide testified that the president tried to grab the steering wheel of the presidential limo so he could go to the Capitol on January 6, 2021. After the aide’s testimony, Representative Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) embraced her, as though expressing solidarity with someone who has just been through a tremendous ordeal. You could say that Washington and Hollywood have finally converged, turning into a single giant Oscars ceremony that no one is watching.
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“The historical argument between left and right over the fate of Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria no longer exists; it was decided on the ground, aided by the failures of Oslo and the disengagement. Meanwhile, now that our possession of Judea and Samaria is axiomatic and no longer at the core of our divisions, we can also redesign the political map and concentrate all the good actors together.”
Last Saturday, I met with a group of friends who served with me in the army as officers, eons ago. What can I say? The State of Israel and the Jewish people have no finer people than these – all patriots, talented, and decent individuals. The overwhelming majority of them have historically voted center-left, and all had praise for now-former prime minister, Naftali Bennett.
After a year in the Religious Services Ministry, Yamina MK gets a middling grade from liberal figures for shaking up Haredi hegemony but failing to advance core issues
Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana, left, with Haya Kliger, on July 15, 2021 (Courtesy)
In his short term as head of Israel’s Religious Services Ministry, Matan Kahana made his mark on the often-overlooked office, rolling out a number of reforms that won’t easily be reversed no matter who wins the upcoming election.
Kahana updated the long-maligned process of naming municipal rabbis, removing many of the aspects that left the positions open to corruption and abuse. At his direction, women have not only been allowed to participate in the management of religious services but are now mandated to do so for certain tasks.
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Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, a Nobel prize-nominated physician who famously discovered and used an early treatment for COVID, dubbed the “Zelenko Protocol,” passed on June 30, 2022, at the age of 48 after a long battle with pulmonary artery sarcoma, a rare form of cancer.
He was born in 1973, in Kyiv, Ukraine, and came to Brooklyn, New York, in 1977 with his family.
Zelenko earned a B.S. in chemistry with high honors at Hofstra University and then earned an M.D. at the Buffalo School of Medicine in 2000.
By Kevin Daley, DAILY BEAST • July 2, 2022
Blue state judges and liberal bureaucrats caught flak for littering their states with drop-boxes and accepting mail-in ballots during the 2020 election without permission from lawmakers. The Supreme Court is poised to stop them from doing it again in 2024.×
The justices announced Thursday that they will hear a case later this year involving the “independent state legislature theory,” which holds that state lawmakers alone control election procedures and redistricting. The news invigorated conservative groups who say bureaucratic tinkering with district lines and election laws is destroying public confidence in the political process.
by Mark Durie, Middle East Quarterly
An underestimated, unappreciated, and oft-denied driver of the Arab-Israeli conflict is Islamic religious antisemitism. How deeply entrenched is this religious bigotry, and can it prevent, or slow down, the nascent reconciliation between Israel and the Arab world?
Some might question whether it is justifiable to speak of “Islamic antisemitism” and view this charge as a slur on the name of one of the world’s great faiths, followed by close to two billion people. Yet the numerous passages in Islam’s canonical sources (the Qur’an and Sunna) that depict the Jews as a warmongering, cowardly, and treacherous lot have played a key role in the perpetuation of the Arab-Israeli conflict, as evidenced among other things by the outpouring of antisemitic hate speech during and after the May 2021 Hamas-Israel war.
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I have written extensively on inverted totalitarianism, that being the once nascent, now entrenched form of government that truly controls the levers of federal power in the United States. This behemoth has turned the USA into a “managed democracy”; a bureaucracy which cannot be held accountable by the elected representatives of the people. Sometimes called the 4th estate, this monster is also referred to as the “deep state” the civil service, or the administrative state.
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The courts are getting increasingly skeptical of the ‘administrative state’<
Abortion will surely define the Supreme Court’s 2021–22 term. But lately the justices have been reconsidering more than just Roe v. Wade. In case after case, they are reconsidering the modern administrative state’s place in the rule of law. At stake is nothing less than the basic structure and sensibility of modern American government.
Administrative law tends to be the stuff of “a pretty dull lecture,” as Justice Scalia once quipped. But recent regulatory cases have brought the Court back to fundamental questions, not just in sleepy cases about esoteric technical statutes, but in front-page conflicts over high-stakes policies. That is especially true this year, in challenges to the Occupational Safety & Health Administration’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate and the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate regulations.
For the last several years, the United States, along with NATO, has been poking the Russian bear, apparently pushing for war with Russia. Why?
When Trump was president it was Russia, Russia, Russia. When Democrats found that Trump was actually getting along with Putin, they became further enraged, even though Trump was pushing NATO to pay its fair share and get more ground troops, ships, and planes ready for combat. You know, getting NATO to do what it’s supposed to do.
By Christian Adams, PJ MEDIA 2.6.22
A strange constellation has emerged through public records requests of coordination between progressive funders, federal authorities, corporations, state election officials, and leftist organizations. Freedom of information requests have uncovered oddball and opaque relationships between some state election officials, federal officials, corporations, progressive activists, and those trying to influence the conduct of those same election officials. These relationships extend to junkets that include baseball games, travel, and even data exchanges between state officials and outside progressive groups. Read more…
Peg Tierney reports,
BTW – they don’t just rig elections and censor social media and report fake news. They rig our emails and fundraising and the search engines to further brainwash us all. A study found that Google’s Gmail cost Republican candidates over $2 billion in donations since 2019 by flagging most fundraising emails as spam. Gmail marked less than 11% of left-wing candidates emails as spam while marking more than 77% of right-wing emails as spam.
https://www.wnd.com/2022/07/gop-charges-interference-emails-supporters/
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Laura Cellier, i24 News: You’ve been advocating for many year for Israel’s fair treatment at the UN. You’ve argued that it is often singled out for condemnation. You just mentioned a list of countries who are accused of grave human rights violations. Can you give us some examples where Israel has been singled out and other countries have kind of gotten away with things?
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by Seth J. Frantzman, The Jerusalem Post
This is a slightly edited version of an article published originally under the title “Who Benefits from Recent Reports on Israel-US-Gulf Ties?”
Representatives of the UAE, U.S., Israel, Bahrain, Morocco, and Egypt at the Steering Committee of the Negev Forum, June 27, 2022.
Recent reports have indicated that Israel and Arab states have held “unprecedented” and “secret” talks, initiated by the US, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The report says, Israel, the US and Saudi Arabia, along with Egypt and Gulf countries took part in the meetings.
Meanwhile, another report says the US “secretly reviews Israel’s plans for strikes against Iranian targets in Syria” and there is talk of a Middle East “NATO.”
Aviel Sheyin -StevensCredit: INN:AS
In Israel, the legislature is not sovereign to legislate, and the executive lacks actual control to execute the instructions of the legislature. The judiciary has established itself as superior to all other branches of the government; intimating that it knows better what the country needs than the people and their elected representatives.
Through almost five decades of Israel’s existence, the courts did not have the authority or the jurisdiction to invalidate a law of the Knesset.
By Anne Bayefsky 06-30-2022
The United Nations has started a dangerous process that its creators hope will conclude with the end of the Jewish state. But events over the past two weeks indicate that arriving at that ignominious result will also ravage the bedrock rules upon which the system of international law and justice depends.
A year ago, the United Nations’ top human rights body created a “Commission of Inquiry” on Israel, and on June 7, 2022, the “inquiry” published its first report. On June 13 and 14, 2022, the three inquisitors presented their report to the Human Rights Council and a specially convened press conference for global media outlets.
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